James and Jennifer Crumbley were arraigned on four counts of involuntary manslaughter and held on $1 million combined bond after being captured at a Detroit commercial building on the run from authorities, the Associated Press reports.
Jennifer Crumbley sobbed during the arraignment, done over Zoom, and her husband shook his head silently when the judge asked if their son, Ethan, had been given permission to access the gun. They were held on $500,000 bond each.
Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald said the couple acted “egregiously” after Ethan murdered four people and wounded seven others during a shooting spree at Oxford High School, where the boy is a sophomore. James Crumbley took Ethan to buy a 9 mm Sig Sauer handgun, which he used in the shootings, on Black Friday. The parents ignored alerts from the school about Ethan’s erratic behavior and refused to remove the child from the school the morning of the shooting even after a meeting with school officials regarding disturbing writings their son made in class.